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Gibbs amphibious vehicle - On The Verge

2012-02-13
this last week you want to see something it's not really I wouldn't describe this as news you we got PR for something called a phibian can you explain what a phibian is to this to these people it's a truck that's also a boat could you be more descriptive it's a it's a boat it's also a truck would you describe it as a yacht that's also a pickup yes like a hiccup hiccup yeah that's well yeah okay so so little break is a transformer of a sort it is a transformer it's very strange but very exciting and you went and did video there we we hung out there for a day you hung out with the phibian for a day yeah are you let's watch this video I I'm very interested to see exactly how this works hey guys it's Eli with the Virg I'm here with the Gibbs phibian which is a very large truck that is also a boat I'm not kidding the wheels flip off the end of the water and this thing can blaze around like 40 miles an hour it can also go 80 miles an hour on land there's two 250 horsepower engines inside it's crazy and we're going to take it for a ride let's go just jack it to being compatible it's just quite a look and I'm going with right now I have to say come to my car that's a boat my truck fits a yacht it is a very large truck that is also a boat as far as I can tell it's actually not a truck and it's not a boat it's an amphibian and it's not just any amphibian it's a high speed and fit so can you go 80 miles an hour flip the wheels and go 40 miles an hour in the water you can in a James Bond film but you never like taking it off like a hell laws of nature and physics might like difficult not so you gotta live you only live once goodbye land land is for suckers Oh in the water all of my dreams are coming true my yacht that's a speedster that's a button that flips out the wheels now we're a boat the design has been specifically generated with the geometry to enable you to have normal Road vehicle handling on road but when you get into the water the geometry enables the whole wheel to be retracted much the same as an aircraft will gets retracted I mean what I really want to do is drive the thing let's be honest I want to go out - so where are the buttons for sailing the missiles what's a wildest thing a customer's asked for so far there's quite a few wild things I mean a lot of them are things that we can't talk about so basically we're saying is somebody has put weapons on the back of your boat nobody has put a weapon on the back of this no one's for a weapon I mean I'm not carrying today I don't know what I feel right now the home the office and I can also take this meatball a back-up plan and drive over 80 miles an hour you say that makes me pretty happy although that happiness is somewhat tempered by the fact that I can't shoot anything you can really add explosion to this mix like any login song that'd be awesome not danger zone now be triangles oh yeah stop there's very strange very odd i I don't understand that the guy was kind of giving you the runaround but I just want to know based on your technical expertise of car boats I'm an expert now I pay the one for ten give it you know the max speed of 80 miles per hour yeah a large enough ramp I like where you're going hit it full speed but could it convert into a boat in time to land and continue going given a ramp is adequate sighs yeah the time and most importantly the skill all right like I need like Patel at the wheel I would definitely think that Neela I think you think that's a sentient operator a yoke up operator yeah of extraordinarily extraordinary capability right but you could do even here nem that's a yes okay great
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